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Flash Gordon
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Action, Science Fiction
Production Phase: Development Hell
Studio: Sony Pictures Production Company: Original Films
Who's Making It: Breck Eisner (Director), Matt Sazama (Screenwriter), Burk Sharpless (Screenwriter), Neal H. Moritz (Producer),
Premise: Earthman Flash Gordon, reporter Dale Arden and scientist Hans Zarkov are transported to the planet Mongo, ruled by the despotic Ming the Merciless. Flash's only hope to return back to Earth and regain his freedom... More »
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
While visiting the set of The Crazies, Arrow in the Head reporter Eric Walkuski asked director Breck Eisner what the latest was on the long-in-development Flash Gordon movie:
"We broke story with the writers [Matt] Sazama and [Burk] Sharpless for the last five or six months or so," answered Eisner. "They went to draft just as we started shooting, and they're going to get to me a draft at wrap. I'll read it and do notes and we'll do a polish on that and give it to the studio a couple months from now. Hopefully the studio will like it and we'll go forward. It's a big movie and the studio has got to love the script.
"The thing about Flash is, you've got to throw away the 80s version of it," Eisner went on to say. "I want it to be intense, aggressive, gritty and real. For me it's about reinventing Flash - we're still staying true to the adventure origins of it, and the adventurous spirit in that movie, absolutely. It's this man brought to another planet and uniting the disperate groups on Mongo, but there is a gritty, intense, dynamic, active quality to the movie. Very modern. It's not camp."
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In a deal that's rumored to cost high six figures against seven figs if the movie ever gets made, Sony Pictures is now the new home for the new Flash Gordon feature film. Breck Eisner (Sahara) remains onboard to direct but new to the equation is The Fast and the Furious producer Neal H. Moritz. Variety reports that a bidding war erupted for the rights from Hearst Entertainment.
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